Reports of "bounties" and "cart-offs" put a sinister image on a game that is being sold not only as family entertainment but as competitively honest.
And when employers were asked why this is, 62% said the sector suffered from an off-putting image of a male-dominated environment.
Many of those who do brave it insist the city's off-putting image is unfair: it is hard for cars to speed around the narrow, winding streets of the historic centre, they say.
It might not be the best time for clowns but don't let that put you off Pickled Image's Coulrophobia at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol.
But if embittered Barrymore parents' tales of required anti-paparazzi courses and notoriously round-heeled senior girls don't put you off, the image of eleven-year-olds throwing tantrums because they can't find their pictures on the wall at Sardi's should.
Ms. Chiuri emphasizes that the image they are creating is not about showing off but about putting the values of craftsmanship "in the front line".
This piece is above a restaurant: Here is one that was just off the boulevard: In New York, JR and his team continued to put up images.
The viewer, who may find the supposedly authentic scenario off-putting but nonetheless compelling -- as images that arouse horror, disgust or bewilderment tend to be -- is nonetheless involved, even implicated, by its apparent authenticity or ability to disturb.
"At first, some Syrians were put off by the image of Asma on the poster," says Shahrazad.
At first, Elbaz was put off by this image because he felt "there was something religious about it", a vague insinuation of a Madonna and Child.
Younger evangelicals, put off by the image of the Christian right created by Falwell and Pat Robertson, are fiercely pro-life but seem less inclined than their elders to commit themselves to Republican Party politics.
